Posted on December 26, 2023
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its seventh annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 26-February 11, 2024 (Fri-Sun at 7pm PT), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new solo work features 9 double-bill performances by nine California […]
Posted on November 24, 2023
PlayGround has announced the cast for its second annual “twisted” holiday show, “A VERY HITCHCOCK CHRISTMAS”, running December 10 & December 16-17 at Potrero Stage and simulcast, with on-demand access through New Year’s. The evening-length program features returning short plays by Jeffrey Lo, Alexis Standridge, and Eteya Trinidad, and three new short plays by Shoshanna […]
Posted on October 26, 2023
PlayGround has announced the programming lineup for the 5th annual INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, featuring new works by the 2023 Innovator Incubator Cohort, Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Company, Native Writers’ Theater, Oakland Public Theater, Network Effects Theater Company, and Poltergeist Theatre Project, along with past incubator companies Kunoichi Productions, Latinx Mafia, and Theatre Cultura. The Innovator Incubator was launched in […]
Posted on September 20, 2023
ReOrient 2023 celebrates the return of Golden Thread Productions’ signature program, an innovative and spirited festival of short plays from or about the Middle East, running October 13-November 4, 2023 (Thu, Fri, Sat at 8 pm; Sun at 3 pm) at Potrero Stage, 1695 18th Street, San Francisco. The dizzying line-up is diverse in content […]
Posted on September 20, 2023
Be Careful Productions presents the Northern California premiere of Jeremy Smith’s upending, one-act show, DUVAL CHRONICLES, for two nights only, September 29 & 30 at 8pm PDT at Potrero Stage. Based on his coming-of-age memoir, Duval Chronicles, Smith takes his audience on an unfiltered joy ride through Duval County. Eliminating the fourth wall and pouring […]
Posted on September 6, 2023
The AfroSolo Theatre Company continues its thirty-year tradition of showcasing the best in Black art and culture this month at Potrero Stage with STANDING TALL, two diverse programs featuring classical music, singing, theater, dance, poetry, hip hop dance and jazz by some of the foremost artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Program 1, September […]
Posted on July 16, 2023
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the second annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 11-27, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. The festival features the first-ever workshop of Melina Cohen-Bramwell’s PLEASE DON’T SLOW ME DOWN (Aug 11-13 7pm PDT), and the premieres of Akaina Ghosh’s CHARACTER ASSASSINATION (Aug 18-20 7pm PDT) and Ipsheeta Furtado’s DISTANCED DATES (Aug […]
Posted on May 22, 2023
PlayGround has announced the full lineup for its 27th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS, running May 8-28, in-person at Potrero Stage, where the festival has been based since 2008, and simulcast online. A preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, the PlayGround Festival of New Works has helped launch dozens of the Bay […]
Posted on May 22, 2023
AfroSolo Theatre Company presents Program 3 of its 29th annual AfroSolo Arts Festival: “TRAIN STORIES”, June 9 & June 10 at 7pm PDT at Potrero Stage and simulcast, with on-demand access through June 30. All performances are admission-free and available both in-person and live-streamed (donations gratefully accepted). For more information or to reserve tickets, click […]
Posted on March 21, 2023
PlayGround announces Potrero Stage’s open availability from June 12, 2023 through January 4, 2026! Potrero Stage is PlayGround’s Center for New Plays, located in the heart of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood. This state-of-the-art performance space features 99 seats on a raised riser, 16.6’ deck to grid, an extensive LED lighting and new digital sound […]